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Points up front: Correlation between CDS and mixed martial arts
2 years ago
BNP Paribas clinched a big-name hire to its credit derivatives division in New York last month after poaching managing director Patrick Vickers from Credit Suisse. -
"No-one talks about the part oil price surges played in the 2008/9 global financial crisis"
2 years ago
Investors eyeing inflation shocks and supply chain disruption should instead be paying attention to the brewing energy crisis -
"Growth in credit products lets investors express sector-specific views as dispersion ticks higher"
2 years ago
Investors can use ETFs, volatility dispersion swaps or even bond baskets to trade dispersion -
Points up front: Definitely not an ex-parrot
2 years ago
One of the biggest credit fund launches last month was Arini, led by star credit trader Hamza Lemssouguer -
"If ESG funds only talk the talk, it is because investors, legislators and regulators don’t walk the walk"
2 years ago
Whatever an ESG fund means to you, it probably means something different to the next investor -
"There are concerns about volatile sectors in high yield, but IG may be vulnerable to macro changes"
2 years ago
High yield has heavier exposure to energy and travel credits, but IG has more rate duration -
“For Creditflux this will be an extra special occasion - the publication is marking its 20th year in business”
2 years ago
A colourful train journey featuring Alice in Wonderland, Yoda and Top Trumps puts Welshcake in mind of the CLO Symposium -
"It may be worth adding hedges of six-plus months’ duration when spreads trade this tight"
2 years ago
Options and tranches offer cost-effective hedges amid tight credit spreads -
"Pain is on the way: spreads are too tight, while compression and carry are done. But what if it's not?"
2 years ago
Welshcake reminds us that mid-cycle portfolio management is a funny old game -
"In the afternoon I awoke from a pile of willow leaves to discover we had created a Welsh ether-based token"
2 years ago
A localised crypto-currency boom and bust cycle teaches Welshcake (again) that everything becomes correlated in a downturn -
Past returns: Having a whale of a time in tranches
2 years ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on JP Morgan’s “little known prop book” making waves in index tranches -
Past returns: Hedging is back
2 years ago
Ten years ago in Creditflux we reported that loan managers had begun hedging after loan prices stabilised back to par following the global financial crisis. These loan managers were worried about future loan slumps and began using credit options and ETFs -
Points up front: The flattest term curve - work anniversary rewards
2 years ago
If you think CLO term curves are flat with a handful of basis points between three and five-year triple A CLOs, then you haven’t seen anything yet -
We say it: Creditflux salutes women in credit
3 years ago
The credit industry is blessed with many strong women and for this issue of Creditflux we’re exclusively hearing their voices across our news, analysis and columns -
"Watch the IG credit curve — we may see steepening of IG 5s10s and flattening of 10s30s"
3 years ago
Stimulus measures are supporting short tenors, and pension demand for 30-year paper is strong, so 10-year IG credit may have few buyers -
CLO guys shouldn't feel quite as self-important as us Welsh... But you are in a pretty amazing spot
3 years ago
CLO portfolio managers should be emboldened by recent events to push for ESG strategies -
It is unfair to extrapolate from one lemon on the lot that the whole fleet of cars is defective
3 years ago
As a barometer of Europcar credit risk before the credit event the CDS contract did a credible job -
I'm a nosy neighbour... get CSO deals public and embrace the age of information
3 years ago
A year of staying under the radar has not helped the CSO market -
They said it: "I am extraordinarily proud of the firm I have helped build"
3 years ago
Apollo chief executive officer Leon Black announces he is stepping down. -
Virus-impacted sectors may suffer greater distress in Europe than in the US
3 years ago
Investors may take different paths to capture positive convexity in US and European credit markets in 2021 -
Speculative protection buying censures managements that seek only to enhance their own wealth
3 years ago
The Catholic church misses the mark when referring to CDS as ‘finance of chance’ -
Cessation of activity mid-December is an opportunity to switch off… and let the mind wander
3 years ago
Welshcake is grateful for a lull in credit markets. The downtime has inspired him to dream up a CLO play -
I foresee various spooky spectacles hitting our screens - and your long portfolios
3 years ago
Welshcake is settling in for a horror movie marathon. But in the previews he sees monsters lurking behind tight credit spreads -
Past returns: Bravo! Citi takes applause with CSO portfolios
3 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux we reported that Citi was planning a follow up to its Bravo portfolio — a CSO reference entity in which the bank made two-way markets -
They said it: "Clearing houses have proposed they will clear index tranches next year"
3 years ago
More liquidity for the index tranche market
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